decision he’s never regretted. Angus says his educational


background in aerospace engineering – a multi-disciplinary degree that requires civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering training, as well as knowledge in working with fluids – overlapped nicely with the demandsof heavy construction projects.


Growing and Diversifying Griffith


Promoted from estimator to


The $24 million Valley View Grade Separation project in the City of Santa Fe Springs was another recent Griffith job.


Construction was in his blood, in


any event. His father was working at and ultimately retired from Griffith Company as a superintendent, and Jaimie had also worked at Griffith in the summers during college as


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a laborer. So, when then Regional Manager and current CEO Tom Foss asked him to join Griffith full time in the estimating department, it was an offer too good to pass up. Twenty-seven years later, it’s a


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Griffith’s Los Angeles office District Manager in 2000, Angus helped grow that office’s revenues from $22 million to about $60 million in just three years, and to $100 million by 2009. “I never had a fear of complex


projects, so we started bidding some airport and port projects that helped drive our growth,” he points out. “Before 2000, the largest project that Griffith ever built was $36 million. By 2002, our largest project was $72 million.” He was promoted to Executive


Vice President in 2010 and then to company President in 2014 when Foss moved up to become CEO. As President, Angus is responsible for overall company operations in Griffith’s Bakersfield, Montclair, and Santa Fe Springs offices, as well as five separate divisions in its Brea office. He parlayed his technical


knowledge and an inclination for hard work and tough jobs to help Foss and others grow Griffith Company into one of Southern California’s largest public works contractors, with 2015 revenues of around $325 million. Among Griffith Company’s major recent and current projects are the $106 million Berth 142/143 Backland Improvement Project at the Port of Los Angeles; the $24 million Valley View Grade Separation project in the City of Santa Fe Springs; the $80 million sbX E Street Corridor Project in San Bernardino; and current joint venture projects with Coffman


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